A thousand pearls (for a thousand pennies)
By: Hervø Le Tellier ; translated by Ian Monk
Contributors: Monk, Ian
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Champaign, Illinois, USA
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Translation of: Les amnésiques n'ont rien vécu d'inoubliable
Format: Softcover
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9781564786364
Work titles: Amnésiques n'ont rien vécu d'inoubliable
Description: In the tradition of Joe Brainard's "I Remember" and Georges Perec's "Je me souviens," this delightful "novel" offers a thousand answers to the question, "What are you thinking?" (Or, as translator Ian Monk puts "Penny for them?") The answers are spontaneous, revealing, ominous, insignificant, grotesque, amusing, lecherous, tragic and trivial by turns, and lovable in their cheerful imperfection. This is a book about the love, sexuality, death, and all the other things that lurk in our everyday thoughts.
Notes: "Originally published in French as Les amnøsiques n'ont rien vøcu d'inoubliable by Le Castor Astral, 1997."